The Best 40 Albums Of 2009!

3. Fuck Buttons: 'Tarot Sport' (ATP Recordings) - A massive step forward for the Bristol duo and also for experimental music in 2009. The Andrew Weatherall produced, sprawling epic is the ultimate post club album, conjuring up a fading sense of blissful euphoria and sense of creeping unease as the dawn approaches. Layers and layers of hypnotic My Bloody Valentine style fuzz, exhilarating bleeps and military drumbeats made for compelling listening and actually had an emotional resonance reaching far beyond many of their guitar swinging peers. Like Aphex Twin and DJ Shadow before them, Fuck Buttons have taken a cold, detached electronic template and twisted it into quite the opposite - a huge sounding, warm, soulful juggernaut of an album. (Paul Reed)

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